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a club where you talk about home-schooling in general. I encourage home school moms to join!

Hey, everyone makes mistakes. Especially me-but to get back to the important issue, I've apologized and you've apologized, so what else is there to do? You forgive me, I forgive you. :)	Nat2 & The Price of Valor
2014-03-01 04:29:01
Your right nat! :)	Sugar1Loaf2 & Lightning
2014-03-01 20:44:28
Sugar, it's not always easy to determine how someone means something when you are writing/reading. It is usually much easier in person! But we are all friends here, and I think we can forgive each other when we goof, because we certainly all do it. Thank you for your graciousness. I've been thinking about the "do a little everyday" lesson. I know there are many areas in my life where I can apply that lesson. What about all of you? Where in your lives and your homeschooling do you think you can apply that lesson to good advantage? I'll even go first. I play the piano at church, and one of my responsibilities is to accompany the choir. I recently received a big stack of music to practice. Some of the pieces are fairly easy, and none of them are terribly hard, but there are some that I can't just sit down and dash off. So, I am trying to apply this principle to my practicing. I took the first five pieces I was given, and played through all of them once. Then for my next session I played through them all again and put sticky tab-markers in spots I felt I needed to drill. When I sat down the next time I picked up a piece and began to drill where the tabs were. When I was done I left, and came back later to do the same for the next piece. I kept doing this until I had drilled the trouble spots in each piece. Then I started over and did it all again, in short practice sessions. When I can I try to do multiple sessions a day, but if I only get one in I just pick up where I left off the next day. I find it is truly amazing how much I improve when I don't try to do too much at once. Constant short sessions are really making a difference. Now, I'll never play at Carnegie Hall, but as I continue practicing I am able to play the pieces more and more easily. Periodically I will run through an entire piece. If I know a certain piece is scheduled next, I will pay more attention to it. Another lesson I have learned is that I rarely can play a piece perfectly, especially since I usually don't have a really long time to practice it. So I work, and I do the best I can, and when performance time comes I play to the best of my ability. (Of course I pray about it too!) Sometimes that means leaving out some notes and just playing what I can. Sometimes it means playing the chord with different fingering, but all - or at least most of - the notes in the chord. And when I mess up I just keep going and get back into the music. So, what areas of your lives/homeschooling can you apply the "little by little" principle?	EagleGirl & Deerslayer
2014-03-05 18:57:01
:)	Nat2 & The Price of Valor
2014-03-06 04:23:07
ANSWER TO EAGLE GIRLS QUESTION, So, what areas of your lives/homeschooling can you apply the "little by little" principle? Math, I would say Math. Math is confusing for me so I try to do it little by little. And learning piano.	Sugar1Loaf2 & Lightning
2014-03-06 04:25:23
yeah nellie	Sugar1Loaf2 & Lightning
2014-03-10 22:49:47
hi	rrpals & Black Widow
2014-03-10 22:50:49
yes I could do without it	s0cc3r13 & Whisper
2014-03-10 22:52:10
Sometimes. But Life of Fred is really enjoyable!	Nat2 & The Price of Valor
2014-03-10 22:56:09
And Science, I haven't found a good science book. what science books is everyone else doing???	Sugar1Loaf2 & Lightning
2014-03-14 18:08:06

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***Home-School 101*** a club where you talk about home-schooling in general. I encourage home school moms to join!

Home-School 101
a club where you talk about home-schooling in general. I encourage home school moms to join!